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Whether you’re designing a simple meeting, an interview, a demonstration, a training session or a semester course for distance education, you’re designing for an expanded environment, a “virtual space” that includes all of the remote individuals or sites that will be involved during your session. Because of the physical separation of these sites, the characteristics of the virtual experience and the many variables that are integral to every session, it is important to:

• Focus on learner needs, objectives and outcomes, exploiting the unique characteristics of the distance education technologies as you design your session(s)
• Make certain that you have selected the appropriate technology(ies) and have adequate support within your institution and at the remote sites
• Develop a timeline, plan, and strategies to manage the many variables that are an integral part of every distance education meeting, program, or course
• Construct a before, during, and after cohesive environment and atmosphere, using blended technologies, to create a feeling of community
• Design for feedback and assessment throughout your sessions

During our distance education experience at ICS, it has become evident that in designing for distance education, we are not merely involved with setting up a meeting, a course, a program, or a session; but rather, are involved in designing an overall experience in which participants can personally encounter the learning event.

Experience - a particular instance or process of personally encountering or undergoing something.

This concept is continually reinforced as we work with instructors at colleges and universities, with governmental agencies, non-profit organizations, and business and industry.

 

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